Thursday, January 15, 2015

Feeling Blessed Tonight, as Usual

Over the
past two days, friends and neighbors have passed along surplus groceries. I am
always amazed at the generosity of those in my senior mobile home community.

One dear friend had a
dozen or more friends and loved ones visiting for about a week. When they all
left, she called me and gave me all the stuff they hadn’t eaten and which she
herself, when alone, does not eat. She knows that what I cannot use I can
happily pass along to a few others in here who are in need.

There is also one neighbor
who apparently works at a job where a lot of surplus food comes in during the
week. At least it’s a lot in the eyes of one or two people. Yesterday was the
first time I knew of this, and we talked. This evening, she, too, passed along
some things for me to choose from and then further distribute. In the future, I
might even have enough left to take to a dear friend’s family a few miles away.
How wonderful that would be.

I sort of feel like I’m
in charge of the biblical loaves-and-fishes in this matter. It is a wonderful
feeling to not only receive, in this case, but to also give to others.

Anyhow, I’ll be able to
pass some of this along and that feels so good.

Father, thank you for
your wonderful bounty and for the loving kindness of the people in this
community in which you planted me back in ’01 - I, myself, could not have
picked out a better community than this, the one you chose for us!

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Pudgy little ol' lady who is grateful for what she's got and loves to share with others. Time-challenged, funds-challenged, but somehow finds a way to deal with it all. I've lived in 4 states (PA for 21 yrs, NJ for 17 yrs, CA for 15 yrs, and NV since '94). Married at 18, divorced at 21, no kids but helped raise several. Raised Catholic, fell away, came back and grateful for the second chance.